Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't want to go back to the north . |
| 3 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 4 | I do n't want to go back to the house yet , a bit , not yet . " |
| 5 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 6 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 7 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 8 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 9 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 10 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 11 | Unless we want to go back to the Stone Age , zero pollution is not practical . ’ |
| 12 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 13 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 15 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 16 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 17 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 18 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 20 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 21 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 22 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 23 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 24 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 25 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do you need to go back to the house to change ? ’ |
| 27 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 28 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 29 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 30 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |